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(1) This Act of Sederunt may be cited as the Act of Sederunt (Proceedings in the Sheriff Court under the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987) Amendment (Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004) 2007 and shall come into force on 1st November 2007.
(2) This Act of Sederunt shall be inserted in the Books of Sederunt.
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(1) The Act of Sederunt (Proceedings in the Sheriff Court under the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987) 1988 shall be amended in accordance with the following sub-paragraph.
(2) For rule 71 (powers of sheriff) there shall be substituted the following:–“
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(1) Without prejudice to any other powers competent to him, the sheriff, in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by these rules, shall have the same powers as regards the summoning and examination of witnesses, the production of documents, the administration of oaths and the correcting of interlocutors as those which he has in an ordinary cause to which the Ordinary Cause Rules in the First Schedule to the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907 apply and in particular shall have the same powers as regards the identification and treatment of vulnerable witnesses within the meaning of section 11(1) of the Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004 as those which he has under Chapter 45 of the Ordinary Cause Rules.”.
A C Hamilton
Lord President I.P.D.
Edinburgh
17th October 2007